Two Worlds (Dva Mira, Два ми′ра) is a tragedy in verse by Apollon Maykov first published (in its full form) in February 1882 issue of The Russian Messenger.
In 1882 Two Worlds won its author the Pushkin Prize for literature and was hailed as his most prominent work to date.
[1] After the 1857 publication of Three Deaths Maykov continued to investigate the moral and the ethical aspects of the original clash between Ancient Rome and early Christianity.
"The Death of Lucius", radically re-worked, has found its way into it too, first as the second (in 1872) and then as the third part, in 1882, when it was published by The Russian Messenger and received the prestigious Pushkin Prize.
"The poem of Maykov is so maturely conceived and meticulously executed, that we have to regard it as one of those gains our literature should be very proud of," Yakov Grot declared on 19 October 1982, speaking at the Russian Academy of Sciences meeting.